Episode 321: Ask Noah Show 321

Dr. Doug Milburn President and founder of 45 Drives joins the Ask Noah Show to talk storage with their lead storage architect Mitch Hall! -- During The Show -- 01:40 News Wire Red Hat OptaPlanner Red Hat (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-build-optaplanner-now-available-red-hat-application-foundations) Kubescape SDX Central (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/interview/cncf-accepts-kubescape-as-inaugural-open-source-security-scanner/2023/01/) Kodi 20 Nexus Liliputing (https://liliputing.com/kodi-20-nexus-media-center-adds-support-for-av1-multiple-instances-of-add-ons-and-more/) GNU Cash 5.0 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/gnucash-5-0-accounting-software-promises-new-stock-transaction-assistant-more) Libvirt 9 Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/libvirt-9.0) Unity 7.7 Getting UnityX Tux Machines (http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/01/12/Unity_7_7_Desktop_Environment_to_Get_a_UnityX_Flavor_with_Wayla.shtml) Gnome 42.8 Ubuntu Free (https://www.ubuntufree.com/gnome-42-8-enables-atomic-mode-setting-for-nvidia-gbm-improves-wayland-and-amdgpu-support-9to5linux/) EndlessOS Endless OS (https://community.endlessos.com/t/beta-release-endless-os-5-0-0-beta2/19745) MX Linux 21.3 Beta (https://betanews.com/2023/01/15/mx-linux-213-wildflower-debian/) 6.0 Kernel EOL Linux Security (https://linuxsecurity.com/news/security-projects/linux-kernel-6-0-reaches-end-of-life-users-urged-to-upgrade-to-linux-6-1) Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Sec Lists (https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q1/20) Kernel Branch to Remove MS RNDIS Its Foss (https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-disable-microsoft-rndis/) System76 Tease Notebook Check (https://www.notebookcheck.net/System76-teases-beefy-Pangolin-Linux-laptop-update-with-Ryzen-7-6800U.681856.0.html) System76 (https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin-teaser) ZSWatch GitHub (https://github.com/jakkra/ZSWatch) 03:50 45 Drives Interview Dr. Doug Milburn - President and Founder Mitch Hall - Lead Storage Architech What is 45 Drives, why did you start 45 Drives? Protocase (https://www.protocase.com/) Backblaze & Netflix Who is your target market? High performance clustering Video production/post production Government General file storage What is your value prop? Typically 1/5 the price Best performance No vendor lock-in Flexibility Expertise - source of knowledge Cloud vs On Prem Storage Cloud works for small data sets with a good "pipe" On Prem is cheaper and more practical for large data sets Why Commit to Open Source? Better model Only right to give back Huston UI Cockpit Modules Benchmark Navigator File sharing Identity ZFS Ceph deploy 45 Drives GitHub (https://github.com/45drives) 45 Drives Repo (ttps://repo.45drives.com/) Huston UI Terminal works GUI works How does 45 Drives Scale? 4 nodes minimum for Ceph Single server Linux & ZFS Can migrate from single server to ceph cluster Look forward Clustering vs Single Server How do you handle data integrity? Get rid of data zoo Harden root Raid - drive failure Off site back up - disaster recovery Snapshots - ransomware ZFS Send/Receive Company Culture I want to create a company I want to work at People are happy when they can contribute/help/serve people Business is a conduit for money Tackle anything but be upfront about capabilities/experience Provide excellent experience and service Customer decides success 45 Drives Cool or Wow Projects CA Wild Fire Project Brain Scanning High Performance Projects Changing the life of small projects -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/321) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed) Special Guest: JT Pennington.